The book tells about the ancient migration movements of the Baltic peoples after they left their Indo-European ancestral homeland – the region of the steppes of the Southern Urals – the Black Sea. Historical and linguistic sources of different times are involved. Brief grammars of the Latvian and Lithuanian languages are given.
The book tells about languages, peoples, migratory movements of Finno-Ugric peoples, about how the Finno-Ugric community emerges, about the formation of beliefs, customs, rites, rituals. Various historical and ethnographic sources of different times are involved. Brief grammars of some Finno-Ugric languages are given.
Industrial development of the South Urals in the years of the new economic policy and pre-war five-year plans is a topic of topical importance for modern Russia. Regardless of political preferences, the problem of the country’s modernization and its accelerated transformation into an industrially developed power comes to the foreground. In this regard, the search for fundamental trends and regularities of historical experience will help to better illuminate ways to solve modern problems.
